Eclipse Embedded CDT

A family of Eclipse CDT extensions and tools for GNU Arm & RISC-V development

How to build the plug-ins?

Build the plug-ins

  • select the gnumcueclipse-plugins parent project
  • right click, select Run As → Run configurations… → GME clean verify (be sure you do not run the install goal, it’ll pollute the cache)
  • wait a while for Maven to load all required modules

The result of a successful build looks like this:


[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building GNU MCU Eclipse plug-ins root 4.3.3-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ ilg.gnumcueclipse.plugins ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse core ............................... SUCCESS [  2.589 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse debug core ......................... SUCCESS [  0.329 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse packages core ...................... SUCCESS [  0.503 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse managed build common code .......... SUCCESS [  0.489 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse packages data ...................... SUCCESS [  0.656 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse managed build packs ................ SUCCESS [  0.421 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse packages ........................... SUCCESS [  0.320 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse packages UI ........................ SUCCESS [  0.604 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse debug packs ........................ SUCCESS [  0.270 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse packages feature ................... SUCCESS [  0.177 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse GDB debug .......................... SUCCESS [  1.276 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse J-Link debug ....................... SUCCESS [  0.761 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse debugger Restart button ............ SUCCESS [  0.282 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse J-Link debug feature ............... SUCCESS [  0.108 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse OpenOCD debug ...................... SUCCESS [  0.539 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse OpenOCD debug feature .............. SUCCESS [  0.104 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse PyOCD debug ........................ SUCCESS [  0.856 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse PyOCD debug feature ................ SUCCESS [  0.116 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse QEMU debug ......................... SUCCESS [  0.601 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse QEMU debug feature ................. SUCCESS [  0.088 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse CodeRed perspective ................ SUCCESS [  0.256 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse CodeRed perspective feature ........ SUCCESS [  0.060 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse documentation ...................... SUCCESS [  0.059 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse documentation feature .............. SUCCESS [  0.060 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse ARM managed build code ............. SUCCESS [  0.525 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse ARM managed build feature .......... SUCCESS [  0.128 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse RISC-V managed build code .......... SUCCESS [  0.437 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse RISC-V managed build feature ....... SUCCESS [  0.102 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse templates core ..................... SUCCESS [  0.398 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse STM32Fx templates .................. SUCCESS [  1.719 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse STM32Fx templates feature .......... SUCCESS [  0.069 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse Freescale Kinetis templates ........ SUCCESS [  0.328 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse Freescale PEx template ............. SUCCESS [  0.274 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse Freescale templates feature ........ SUCCESS [  0.072 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse SiFive template .................... SUCCESS [  0.381 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse SiFive template feature ............ SUCCESS [  0.066 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse Cortex-M template .................. SUCCESS [  0.260 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse Cortex-M template feature .......... SUCCESS [  0.068 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse ADuCM template ..................... SUCCESS [  0.359 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse ADuCM template feature ............. SUCCESS [  0.070 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse repository ......................... SUCCESS [  5.419 s]
[INFO] GNU MCU Eclipse plug-ins root ...................... SUCCESS [  0.001 s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 45.645 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-04-19T18:02:13+03:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 161M/1508M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

The result is a p2 repository:

  • repositories/ilg.gnumcueclipse.repository/target/repository

Build the packages

… mvn clean verify -Pepp.package.cpp

Debug

To run a debug session using the GNU MCU Eclipse plug-ins:

  • Run → Debug Configurations…
    • double-click Eclipse Application
    • Name: GME Plug-ins
    • Location: ${workspace_loc}/../runtime-GMEPlug-ins-2018-12
    • Tab: Plug-ins
      • Launch with: plug-ins selected below; the Workspace list should include all ilg.gnumcueclipse.* plug-ins, not the EPP ones; the Target Platform list should include all Eclipse, not only CDT, plug-ins; if the Eclipse plug-ins are not in the list, then the Preferences → Plug-in Development → Target Platform is not Running Platform, and must be changed. The alternative to use all workspace and enabled plug-ins might work in some configurations, and can also be used, but if dependencies are not met, manual selection is required.
      • click the Validate Plug-ins button; disable the offending plug-ins; validate again and repeat until success.
    • click Apply
    • Tab: Arguments
      • Program arguments:
        • -consoleLog
        • -debug "${workspace_loc}/../../eclipse-plugins.git/debug.options" (-debug "${workspace_loc}\..\..\eclipse-plugins.git\debug.options" on Windows)
      • VM arguments:
        • -ea (to enable assertions)
        • -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts (only on macOS)
        • -Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns (only on macOS)
      • enable Use the -XstartOnFirstThread argument when launching with SWT
    • click the Apply button
    • click the Debug button

Clear all errors in the Problems tab.

Be sure the target platform is the Running Platform, otherwise starting the debug session fails.

Debug options

As seen before, the debug options are grouped in a file and passed to Eclipse using the -debug <file> option.

Plug-ins cache

When starting debug sessions from within Eclipse, a copy of the run-time is kept under

${workspace_loc}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/Eclipse GNU MCU Plug-ins

For unknown reasons, some changes in the source code (like changing properties files) do not trigger a rebuild, and it is normally not possible to test these changes.

The workaround I found was to remove this folder, and Eclipse will recreate it before the next run.

Debug with CDT sources

A more elaborated configuration is required when willing to run debug sessions using CDT source files from the Git repository, for example to debug issues inside CDT.

Clone the CDT repository:

$ cd .../gnu-mcu-eclipse.github
$ mkdir -p originals
$ git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git originals/org.eclipse.cdt.git

For regular tests, select the CDT_9_2_1 tag.

Create a new working set named CDT.

  • in the Package Explorer view, click the down pointing triangle,
  • select Configure Working Sets…
    • click the New… button
    • fill in the Working set name: with CDT
    • click the Finish button
    • click the OK button

Import all CDT projects

  • in the Eclipse menu → File → Import… → General → Existing Projects into Workspace
  • click the Next > button
  • browse for the org.eclipse.cdt.git folder
  • deselect some projects selected
  • enable Add projects(s) to working set and enter CDT
  • click the Finish button

Create a new debug configuration

  • in the Eclipse menu → Run → Debug Configurations…
  • duplicate GME Plug-ins into GME Plug-ins with CDT
  • in teh Plug-ins tab, click the Add Working Sets.. button
    • select the CDT set
    • click the OK button
  • using the Validate Plug-ins button, disable unwanted plug-ins (like all tests) until the validation passes
  • click the Apply button
  • click the Debug buton to start a debug session

Last modified on Mon Sep 23 15:15:35 2019 UTC.